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Paul Tibbets and “The Family of Man”
The Nav Log ^ | 11/1/07 | ltn72

Posted on 11/01/2007 11:58:06 AM PDT by pabianice

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1 posted on 11/01/2007 11:58:07 AM PDT by pabianice
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To: pabianice

Bravo!


2 posted on 11/01/2007 12:00:41 PM PDT by American Quilter (The urge to save humanity is nearly always a cover for the urge to rule. - H. L. Mencken)
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To: pabianice

Amen! My father and many guys like him were in line to go to Japan at the end of the war and Paul Tibbets saved a lot of American lives.


3 posted on 11/01/2007 12:03:47 PM PDT by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN, 3rd Bn. 5th Marines, RVN 1969. St. Michael the Archangel defend us in battle!)
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To: pabianice
WHEN MEN WERE MEN:

TODAY:


4 posted on 11/01/2007 12:05:05 PM PDT by Diogenesis (Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
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To: ConorMacNessa
Amen! My father and many guys like him were in line to go to Japan at the end of the war and Paul Tibbets saved a lot of American lives.

....and a lot of Japanese lives as well.

5 posted on 11/01/2007 12:05:59 PM PDT by Tolkien (There are things more important than Peace. Freedom being one of those.)
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To: Diogenesis

that last picture is such a subtle statement of the glaring hypocrisy of the left.
i’m being good and wearing my headscarf.. yet showing an impressive amount of cleavage.


6 posted on 11/01/2007 12:09:47 PM PDT by absolootezer0 (Only two products have come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. Coincidence? i think not.)
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To: pabianice

It was a hard thing to do, but America made a decision and followed through. All the men on that mission deserve our love and gratitude, NOT endless picketing of funerals. May he RIP.


7 posted on 11/01/2007 12:11:26 PM PDT by tioga
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To: absolootezer0

Ha! You noticed that too, huh? “I’ve got my head covered, praise Allah...but check out my rack!”

}:-)4


8 posted on 11/01/2007 12:12:52 PM PDT by Moose4 (Ron Paul is like a beautiful plate of food ruined by a cow patty.)
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To: Diogenesis

I utterly reject the notion that your last picture accurately represents America today.


9 posted on 11/01/2007 12:16:25 PM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: pabianice

Just think if Ron Paul had been in office the bomb would have never been dropped. And we’d all be speaking Japanese/German....instead of English/Spanish! lol


10 posted on 11/01/2007 12:19:22 PM PDT by AuntB (" It takes more than walking across the border to be an American." Duncan Hunter)
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To: ConorMacNessa

Read Richard Frank’s “Downfall” about the history of the decision to drop the bombs. He devastates all the lib/commie revisionist arguments about using the bombs on Japan.

One point he proves beyond a doubt is that dropping the bombs SAVED JAPANESE LIVES. Millions of them, in fact. At the time of the surrender, the Japanese were on the edge of starvation. We were prepared to continue the conventional bombings of the cities and transportation infrastructure, along with the interdiction of all seaborne transport through aerial and submarine attack, and a very effective mining program. If the war continued another 60 or 90 days, the Japanese people would not have made it through the winter without eating each other.

And no, they were not on the “verge of surrender” before the bombs were dropped. A cursory reading of internal military and diplomatic dispatches in June-July 1945 makes that clear. And we knew it because we were reading them at the time.


11 posted on 11/01/2007 12:23:24 PM PDT by henkster (The dems have reserved your place on the collective farm.)
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The mass of the US public and especially the US media...has virtually no understanding or grasp of what Japanese leadership was in 1945. The war was never going to be over...until you really laid down a harsh situation and future reality.

If I had been standing in Tibbets shoes in 1945...I’d do just the same thing, and never look back.


12 posted on 11/01/2007 12:28:42 PM PDT by pepsionice
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To: ArrogantBustard

You got that right, FRiend.
Not all of America. Just most American “leaders”.


13 posted on 11/01/2007 12:30:32 PM PDT by Diogenesis (Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
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‘Ha! You noticed that too, huh? “I’ve got my head covered, praise Allah...but check out my rack!”’

ROTFL!

I admit, I did just that.

Spawn of Satan that I obviously am....


14 posted on 11/01/2007 12:33:07 PM PDT by Badeye ('Ron Paul joined 88 Democrats.....")
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To: ArrogantBustard; Diogenesis
I utterly reject the notion that your last picture accurately represents America today.

I don't know...it is otherwise hard to explain the fact that greater than 60% of our fellow "Americans" oppose the war on terror.

15 posted on 11/01/2007 12:45:01 PM PDT by jboot (If I can't get a Josiah, I'll settle for a Jehu)
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To: Tolkien
...[dropping the A-Bomb saved] a lot of Japanese lives as well.

Bears repeating. Either of the two likely alternatives -- firebombing them into submission, or an invasion of Japan -- would have cost millions of Japanese lives, not to mention widespread destruction of their homeland.

The Battle of Okinawa, where 60,000 to 70,000 Japanese military and 150,000 Japanese civilians lost their lives was a hint of what horrors might have been -- multiplied by ten to fifty the number of casualties -- if not for the capitulation of Japan following the A-Bomb attacks.

Mr. Tibbets probably did sleep well at night, and why not. We WERE at war.

I pray he's resting in the arms of Jesus now.

16 posted on 11/01/2007 12:47:24 PM PDT by Nervous Tick
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To: jboot
that greater than 60% of our fellow "Americans" oppose the war on terror.

That's certainly a factual statement ... but is it true? It certainly doesn't mirror my personal experience.

17 posted on 11/01/2007 12:47:37 PM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: ArrogantBustard
I don't know if it is true any more than any other polling data is "true". Nevertheless, it does seme to capture the prevailing mood of most people that I know here in the East. In these parts, there is no faster way to become a social leper than to voice even lukewarm support for the war-even amongst "conservatives".

I trust middle America is different. But I don't think the majority of Americans live there.

18 posted on 11/01/2007 1:06:07 PM PDT by jboot (If I can't get a Josiah, I'll settle for a Jehu)
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To: ConorMacNessa
Amen! My father and many guys like him were in line to go to Japan at the end of the war and Paul Tibbets saved a lot of American lives

Amen indeed. My father, who went through the entire pacific theater, was in line to go into Japan in the 2nd wave.

19 posted on 11/01/2007 1:32:22 PM PDT by pt17
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Thank you Paul Tibbetts. My father 1st Sargeant 1st Cav was preparing for the invasion. That day was his birthday.
I probably wouldn’t be here if it hadn’t been for those courageous men. Thank you Gen. Tibbetts.
Perhaps now my Dad can thank him personally. RIP.
Fuzzycat.


20 posted on 11/01/2007 1:51:09 PM PDT by fuzzycat
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